Medical Technology

They believe that having electronic health records it will decrease cost, help he duplication and claim processing which allows multiple providers to rely upon one laboratory findings and detect fraudulent billing practices. There are many people in the medical field that doubt whether digital information benefits the quality of care. The Institute of Medicine (MM) explain the significance of digitizing health care; they believe IT will play a central role in the redesign of the health care system if a substantial improvement in health care quality is to be achieved during the coming decade.

In the sass the country was rapidly being introduced the possibilities of computers ND digital information. The number of households with internet increased 58 percent with access to the news, research, shopping on line, and communication, health care was the next sector for implementing information technology. The transition as we all know is proved to be troublesome because medicine involved thousands of individual businesses, a centralized, efficient acquisition process would not be possible.

A majority of physicians practiced solo or very small group practices the cost would be prohibitive, plus the chaos of vendors trying to outsell each other ND meet the demand for the in-office technology resulted in software programs that did not talk to each other. Then in 2003 the office of Civil Rights enforces the HAIFA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information. The HAIFA security rule sets national standards for the security of electronic protected health information.

The HAIFA breach notification requires covered entities and business associates to provide notification following a breach of unsecured protected heath information and protects identifiable information being used to analyze patient safety events and improve patient safety. This furthered the idea of HITS become a distant dream. Although the vision of paperless health care system has not been lost through all the difficulties, the Affordable Care Act would try to find an imaginary place that they will never reach.

So in early times some advocates goals on medical records were that the medical records should accurately reflect the course of disease and should indicate the possible causes of disease. Patient records go back to ancient civilization, the record was for the benefit of the actor; the record told the medical story of a patient, enabling the physician to remember details that would be lost to memory. As specialization distinguished health care so did the needs of records in order to facilitate proper care.

Physicians who are involved in one patient’s treatment need to communicate their findings, thoughts, and interventions to each other. It started to increase the importance for a patients chart to be shared among all the physicians for the correct patient care. In later years a patients chart record became a focus point of a plaintiffs claim that the Hispanic failed to meet the quality of care or decision making. Then the development of private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid the billing and charting become connected. The records became a part of the investigation and prosecution of fraudulent billing practices.

Finally the medical review boards became interested in records to assure the quality of care that licensed physicians provide. Then Hurricane Strain happened and in a matter of hours 400,000 medical records were gone and destroyed. Overnight thousands of Louisiana residents lost their medical history forever. All medical history records and future genetic information all were destroyed. State laws started to recognize the patient’s right to access their own medical records. The HAIFA privacy rule was the right to access the patient’s personal medical record.

The ERR became valuable to the healthcare field ending Jokes about the doctor’s handwriting for legible records. The digitized data collection would assist the doctors in standardized patient care protocol for specific conditions or diseases. Data of electronic records and billing would enforce the fraud and abuse of medical doctors. With electronic records patient’s entire life and treatment becomes available to the health care system for many physicians to properly care for the patient I chose this article because it is the future of health care systems.

With medical records being digital and patients having access to their medical records we can ensure that it will not be lost. It will also give the doctors access to the patients’ medical records from past history to present. With having access to medical records doctors can properly treat patients and have quality care.. Having 2417 access to individuals charts and no longer a need for signed release, or waiting for days and even weeks for potential fees in order to get a paper copy.